Microwave configuration for enhancing reliability of multiple beam communications satellites
CA 1071720 A · Owner: Communications Satellite Corporation · Inventors: Mahle, Cristoph E.; Assal, Francois T.; Berman, Arnold
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A redundant microwave configuration providing a highly flexible routing of a plurality of inputs to a plurality of inputs is characterized by at least two switching layers wherein each switching layer comprises a plurality of four port switches and the switches in at least one of the switching layers are connected in a ring, corresponding switches in the layers being interconnected. This redundancy configuration is not limited to microwave applications only but could be implemented at all other frequencies. One microwave configuration employs 2N amplifiers between said switching layers as building blocks to provided N inputs to N antenna ports. This configuration allows any conbination of …
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- Granted February 12, 1980. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended February 12, 1997.
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